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\nWhat if we could learn to behold one another's wholeness, rather than focussing so narrowly on the aspects of others that we fear or desire? To trust in one another's vastness and depth instead of relating to one another from defensiveness or a desire to control? It would, for sure, give us a way to know one another with a greater kindness and a greater truthfulness than we do now. Can you imagine how it would be to greet one another - partners, children, friends, colleagues - that way? A conversation about trust, welcome and truthfulness, with Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nThis is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. We\u2019re also on YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website.
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\nHere's our source for this week, which was written specially for us by our friend and colleague Neena Sims, in response to our conversation in Episode 119.
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\nSafe and Sound
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\nHave you noticed how you and I can be around our young ones? How we look at saplings, at puppies, at babies?
\nNo, that\u2019s not quite right, we don\u2019t look, we behold
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\nI wonder, would you please behold me that way \u2013 just for a while? Better still for a lifetime
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\nI don\u2019t mean the cooing or the smiling
\nor the way you might tickle me and tell me I\u2019m delicious - delightful as that can be
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\nI\u2019m talking about the infinite ways you can bring yourself, all of yourself, to all of me
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\nThe way you know that I\u2019m whole - safe and sound - just as I am
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\nThe way you know that I\u2019m still growing, a forever unfinished body of hope
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\nThe way you can be with my sadness, my rages, my strokes of genius
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\nThe way you respond to my small-minded, hidden acts of malice and my colossal acts of kindness with ferocious, truthful lightness
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\nThe way you land us both safe on the side of trusting that this both is - and isn\u2019t - my whole story
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\nI think you do all of this out of faith \u2013 am I right?
\nFaith in me
\nFaith that, like a holy hologram, the whole is here in every part Faith in the ragged becoming that I am
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\nBut you must also do it out of faith in yourself \u2013 am I right?
\nFaith that you can greet whatever is here and welcome all that is yet to come Faith in the ragged becoming that you are too
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\nHave you noticed how you and I can be around our young ones? How we look at saplings, at puppies, at babies?
\nNo, that\u2019s not quite right, we don\u2019t look, we behold
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\nAnd have you noticed how they behold us too?
\nA small, potent, goodness-seeking missile to the heart I\u2019m not sure which comes first?
\nPerhaps there isn\u2019t a first, only an in-between
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\nYou\u2019re safe and I\u2019m sound You\u2019re sound and I\u2019m safe
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\nSomething like that
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\nNeena Sims, January 2020\n